Envelop



J. S. 'RATE ENVELOP.

APPLlcAnoN FILED ocT. 2o. 1919.

Patented Sept. 28, 1920.

A TTHNEYS PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES S. CRATE, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS.

ENVELOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 28, 1920.

Application lefl October 20, 1919. Serial No. 331,946.

To @ZZ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JAMES S. CRATE, a citizen of the United States, anda resident oi' Houston, in the county oi Harris and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and Improved Envelop, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in envelops, and moreparticularly to envelops designed for interotlice use, an obj ect of theinvention being to provide an envelop having improved means forindicating the destination of the envelop to any of a series of personsor locations.

A further object is to provide an envelop of the character stated havinga series of spaces thereon with a separable or removable indicatoradapted to be located in any of said spaces to indicate the destinationot the envelop.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction, and combinations and arrangements ofparts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in theclaims. I

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a view in section on the line1-1 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 2 is a view in section on the line 2--2 of Fig. 3; and

Fig. 3 is a view in elevation of my improved envelop.

l represents my improved envelop which may be of any size and of anysuitable ma` terial. The envelop 1 is provided in its front preferably,although not essentially, near one end with a transparent portion 2. Apocket is formed back of the transparent portion by means of a backingsheet 4 which is secured at its side and lower edge to the envelop,lines of stitching 5 being illust-rated for this purpose, although, ofcourse, the backing sheet may be secured in any way desired.

The upper end of the pocket formed by the backing sheet 4 is open forthe admis` sion of a card 6 which is divided into a series of spaces 7adapted to contain the names or locations. To one side of thetransparent section 2 a column of spaces 8 is provided and these spaces8 register with the spaces 7 of the card 6. Each space 8 is providedwith a retaining device 9, andi-ing with the a removable indicator 10 isadapted to be connected to any ot said retaining devices.

A convenient form of retaining device is the ordinary stud member oi" asnap iastener and the ordinary indicator may constitute the button orsocket member of the snap fastener, and I have illustrated these devicesin the drawings, but, of course, the invention is not limited to theparticular censtruction of indicator or retaining device.

-In operation the envelop with its contents is carried to the person orlocation indicated by the position of the indicator 10 and from thisperson or location the envelop can be transferred to any other person orlocation on the card by simply changing the indicator 10 to the properspace 8 registering With the person or location to which the envelop isdestined.

Such a construction of envelop facilitates the carrying on of businessas it prevents miscarriage oi' important papers from one person ordepartment to another and the envelop can be utilized for a long time asthe spaces can be ample to provide for all persons or stations within anoiiice or department where such transfers of the papers are made. Alsoin case of changes in the ollice personnel, it is evident that the cardcan be removed and names substituted or added, or if necessary a newcard can be used, which operations could not be effected if the nameswere printed upon the envelop.

Various slight changes may be made in the general form and arrangementsof parts described without departing from the invention, and hence I donot limit myself to the precise details set forth but consider myself atliberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within thespirit and scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. An envelop having on its outer face adjacent one end vertical andhorizontal lines forming a vertical column of spaces, retaining deviceslocated centrally in said spaces, said envelop adjacent said column or'spaces having a transparent portion and a pocket formed back of thetransparent portion and adapted to receive a card containing a column ofdestination spaces register- ,first-mentioned column of spaces, vand aremovable indicator adapted to be connected to any of said retaining dejvices. v Y

2. An envelop having' on its outer face at one end vertical andhorizontal lines form-` `horizontal lines registering With the hori-Zontal lines of the rstLmentioned spaces and containing above said linesprinted -Inati' ter indicating destinations for said envelop.

8. An envelop having a transparent 1portion, a backing sheet secured inrear of the ytransparent portion and forming a pocket, a removable cardlocated 1n the pocket and containin'g a column of envelop destinationspaces, said envelop having beside the trans parent portion a c'olurnnof indicator spaces registering With the spaces Von thecard, a retainingdevice in each of the last-mentioned spaces, and an indicator adapted tobe removably connected to any of said retaining devices. y

Y JAMES S. CRATE.

